Write a “poem that has the same first line as another poem. You can use a favorite poem, pick up a random book of poetry and get a first line that way, or perhaps use one of the following:

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

She walks in beauty, like the night

Slowly, silently, now the moon

anyone lived in a pretty how town

I have written some poems of this type in the past, and it can be fun to take a well-known first line and do something totally different with it! But if it’s hard for you to shake the original, maybe using a first line from a random poem would be best for you.”

CREATIVE PROCESS BELOW (ALL THAT BROUGHT ME TO THE FINISHED POEM IS BELOW):

For APRIL 1st (Started APRIL 4th – finished APRIL 8th)

A SONNET MAYBE ?

Dare ye compare me to a summer’s day
When frigid chills have not begun to wain?
Without my coat and hat I wish to play
For careless dreaming you would entertain.

Will someone tell the groundhog he was wrong?
Cold breezes blew my curly tresses straight.
The warmth of Spring’s arrival took too long.
We wonder why the Winter stayed so late.
……

Many of my late March 2013 daily haiku were about the slow transition from Winter to Spring (it was snowing just to the south of my region on the day of this writing – April 4th), so how can anyone compare anything or anyone to a summer’s day? The temperature forecast was 35 degrees overnight that night.

If you could see me at my best
in my sleeveless top and sun-tanned skin
sun-kissed shoulders

(Thank you to the people have started “liking” my posts, before I had written any poems yet! Because I started late with NaPoWriMo, I decided to develop and finish my poems for the first four days of the month in the posts where they ultimately will be displayed. You will see my creative process with the finished poem.)